Vessel-Aware Deep Learning for OCTA-Based Detection of AMD

This paper proposes a vessel-aware deep learning framework for detecting age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in OCTA images by integrating external multiplicative attention with clinically meaningful vascular biomarkers, specifically tortuosity and dropout maps, to guide the model toward physiologically relevant regions and improve interpretability.

Margalit G. Mitzner, Moinak Bhattacharya, Zhilin Zou, Chao Chen, Prateek Prasanna2026-03-10💻 cs

HiDE: Hierarchical Dictionary-Based Entropy Modeling for Learned Image Compression

The paper proposes HiDE, a hierarchical dictionary-based entropy modeling framework for learned image compression that enhances coding efficiency by decomposing external priors into global and local dictionaries with cascaded retrieval and employing a context-aware parameter estimator to achieve significant BD-rate savings over state-of-the-art methods.

Haoxuan Xiong, Yuanyuan Xu, Kun Zhu, Yiming Wang, Baoliu Ye2026-03-10💻 cs

Step-Level Visual Grounding Faithfulness Predicts Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Long-Horizon Vision-Language Models

This paper establishes that the quality of a model's step-level visual grounding, quantified by the Step Grounding Rate (SGR), serves as a robust and independent predictor of out-of-distribution generalization in long-horizon vision-language models, outperforming traditional final-answer accuracy metrics.

Md Ashikur Rahman, Md Arifur Rahman, Niamul Hassan Samin, Abdullah Ibne Hanif Arean, Juena Ahmed Noshin2026-03-10💻 cs

MotionBits: Video Segmentation through Motion-Level Analysis of Rigid Bodies

This paper introduces MotionBits, a novel concept and learning-free segmentation method that identifies the smallest manipulable rigid bodies through kinematic spatial twist equivalence, outperforming state-of-the-art embodied perception models on the new MoRiBo benchmark and enabling more effective downstream robotic manipulation and reasoning tasks.

Howard H. Qian, Kejia Ren, Yu Xiang, Vicente Ordonez, Kaiyu Hang2026-03-10💻 cs

Active View Selection with Perturbed Gaussian Ensemble for Tomographic Reconstruction

This paper introduces Perturbed Gaussian Ensemble, an active view selection framework for sparse-view CT that leverages stochastic density scaling of uncertain Gaussian primitives to identify high-variance projections, thereby significantly improving reconstruction fidelity and reducing geometric artifacts compared to existing methods.

Yulun Wu, Ruyi Zha, Wei Cao, Yingying Li, Yuanhao Cai, Yaoyao Liu2026-03-10💻 cs

IGLU: The Integrated Gaussian Linear Unit Activation Function

This paper introduces IGLU, a novel parametric activation function derived from a scale mixture of GELU gates that utilizes a Cauchy CDF to provide heavy-tailed gradient properties and robustness against vanishing gradients, alongside a computationally efficient rational approximation (IGLU-Approx) that achieves competitive or superior performance across vision and language tasks compared to standard baselines like ReLU and GELU.

Mingi Kang, Zai Yang, Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Small Target Detection Based on Mask-Enhanced Attention Fusion of Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing Images

This paper introduces ESM-YOLO+, a lightweight visible-infrared fusion network that employs a Mask-Enhanced Attention Fusion module and training-time Structural Representation enhancement to achieve high-precision small-target detection in complex remote sensing scenes while significantly reducing model complexity compared to baselines.

Qianqian Zhang, Xiaolong Jia, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Li Zhou, Junshe An2026-03-10💻 cs